To her great annoyance the footsteps paused near to the screen; then Signora Grassini's thin, piping little voice broke off for a moment in its stream of chatter.
" Move along now, " said a sharp voice. " The Sorting Ceremony's about to start." Professor McGonagall had returned. One by one, the ghosts floated away through the opposite wall.
Finally the crone opened her eye and lifted her arms. I have seen his face, and heard the thunder of his hooves, she proclaimed in a thin, wavery voice.
" Mhysa" ! a brown-skinned man shouted out at her. He had a child on his shoulder, a little girl, and she screamed the same word in her thin voice. " Mhysa! Mhysa" !